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✨ Discovery of the day

Year: 1897
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Sultanate of Anjouan Navigation and Commerce - 40 Centime

Mythology • 40

This stamp highlights the era of French colonial expansion in the Indian Ocean, specifically within the Comoros archipelago under the Sultanate of Anjouan protectorate. The illustration features the "Navigation and Commerce" allegory, a classic theme of the French colonial "Group Type" program, which carries a message of economic progress, maritime power, and the civilizing mission through the personifications of seated figures holding a caduceus and a rudder. In the Comorian context, the presence of the "SULTANAT D’ANJOUAN" overprint represents the transitional period where the local authority of the Sultan was subsumed into the French administrative and postal framework, reflecting a heritage defined by the strategic trade routes of the Mozambique Channel. This piece documents the institutional shift from an independent sultanate to a colonial dependency, illustrating how local identity was framed within the broader mercantile interests and bureaucratic aesthetics of the French Republic during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Bicentennial of the United States of America (1776-1976) - John C. Frémont (1813-1890) and Kit Carson (1809-1868)

International Events, Political Figures
50 years 👁 10
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Bicentennial of the United States of America (1776-1976) - Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)

International Events
50 years 👁 7
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 30 CF

Science and technology
51 years 👁 27
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 1500 CF

Science and technology
51 years 👁 25
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 1500 CF

Science and technology
51 years 👁 23
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 500 CF

Science and technology
51 years 👁 22
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 400 CF

Science and technology
51 years 👁 23
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 200 CF

Science and technology
51 years 👁 21
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 100 CF

Science and technology
51 years 👁 24
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 50 CF

Science and technology
51 years 👁 22
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - 10 CF

Science and technology
51 years 👁 23
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Comorian Folklore Dances

art
51 years 👁 22
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Comorian Folklore Dances

art
51 years 👁 22
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CORIANTHE Expedition, 1975

Sea Life
51 years 👁 22
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Map of Mohéli Island

Sites and landscapes
51 years 👁 37
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Shirazian Tombs - Mohéli Island

Sites and landscapes
51 years 👁 37
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Village of Djoiezi - Mohéli Island

Sites and landscapes
51 years 👁 36
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Village of Mohani - Mohéli Island

Sites and landscapes
51 years 👁 36
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Comorian Handicrafts - Dagger

crafts
51 years 👁 23
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Comorian Handicrafts - Sabre

crafts
51 years 👁 20
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Comorian Handicrafts - Diademe tiara

crafts
51 years 👁 22
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Comorian Handicrafts - Bracelet

crafts
51 years 👁 22
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70th Anniversary of Rotary International and 10th Anniversary of the Rotary Club of Moroni

Event
51 years 👁 23
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Direct Air Link Moroni - Hahaya - Paris

Achievements
51 years 👁 26
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